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Ruzwana Bashir
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Founder/CEO Peek.com: experiences platform w/ over $150M raised from WestCap & Goldman Sachs. Board member @SoFi. Nerdy Oxford & Harvard grad. YGL@WEF.
New York, NY
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jun 23, 2022
    Wow, honored to win EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in NYC last night!! Receiving it on behalf of the brilliant 300-person @peek team & my cofounder @oskarbruening. Crazy to think how far we’ve come from near death in 2020 to an $80M round a yr later & so much more to come 🚀
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Aug 29, 2014
    The most important article I've ever written. I hope it can make a difference.
    theguardian.com
    The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim
    The extraordinary story of Ruzwana Bashir: the Oxford-educated entrepreneur brought up in a British-Pakistani community shares her own story to tear down the wall of silence around the exploitation...
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jun 12, 2019
    I don’t know what the big deal is.. I get invited to cool stuff all the time. @RMac18 @karaswisher
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jan 2, 2023
    Last bit of Patagonia porn 😜. Torres del Paine is easily in the top handful of most beautiful places I’ve ever been 😍
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jul 2, 2020
    On top of the world 🌎
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Aug 31, 2014
    Thx to the Guardian for placing my op-ed on their front page.We have to challenge the taboos&tackle abuse everywhere
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Nov 23, 2021
    Thrilled to announce @Peek’s $80 million Series C investment from WestCap & Goldman Sachs! With $2bn in bookings, we’re just getting started on our mission to connect the world through experiences 🏄🏼‍♀️🎨🧗🏾‍♀️🚁🗽🏕🚴🏻‍♂️🍻. We’re tripling the team so come join us!
    techcrunch.com
    Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings...
    Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jun 19, 2018
    Delighted to share the news of our $23M Series B & partnerships! Thank you to everyone who helped us get here- our team (past& present), investors (welcome @Cathayinnov!) & supporters. It will help accelerate our mission to connect the world through experiences. p.s. we're hiring
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    TechCrunch
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    Jun 19, 2018
    Peek raises $23M and inks partnership with Google in push to digitize travel activities tcrn.ch/2t97mqp by @jonrussell
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Nov 2, 2016
    Thx @FortuneMagazine - proud to be a British-Pakistani immigrant building my startup in 🇺🇸 fortune.com/2016/11/02/ruz…
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Aug 29, 2014
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Nov 9, 2020
    .@Peek's COVID comeback. After hitting $1bn in bookings in Jan, we were at zero in Apr. With the tenacity & creativity of the thousands of activities businesses we partner with &hard work from our team, we recovered to help millions of Americans book fun, local experiences safely
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    Bloomberg
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    Nov 9, 2020
    With pivots and new products, these 6 travel companies are thriving during the pandemic trib.al/NAMrctz
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jun 12, 2019
    Enjoyed visiting Italy w/ Brunello Cucinelli and talking about humanism, tech & how to make sure @Peek has a positive impact on the world. Promise no photoshopping in these ;)
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Dec 23, 2021
    Made it to Thailand 🏝
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    Ruzwana Bashir
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    Jan 25, 2015
    1 minute on the Internet: 204 million emails 4m Google searches 2.5m Facebook shares 417k Tinder swipes 277k Tweets